I have 5 different mulberries: persian, pakistan, white, weeping and oscar. I would say the persian has the best flavor. Mulberry, a bit of blackberry and with the acidity of pomegranate. It is sweet, juicy and the acidity adds complexity to the flavor. That said if I had to pick one it would be the pakistan mulberry. Even though the persian has better flavor the pakistan, the pakistan is still a very tasty fruit but the fruit is bigger and the tree has more fruit than the persian. The fruit is much easier to eat than the persian. The fruit itself is easier to pick and doesn't bleed or very little. The persian seems to explode when touched making it a messier fruit to eat and is harder to pick off the tree. I would suggest using a small scissors to cut off at the base if there is room to make a cut to minimize the bleeding. The weeping is good but taste more like the common mulberry that most people had when as a kid. The white mulberry, I am referring to the color of the fruit, is the sweetest and not much complexity. The taste is like brown sugar and vanilla. Still a fun fruit to eat. I haven't tried the oscar yet but hope to this season. I heard some saying that this a very tasty fruit and prefer it over the pakistan. This mulberry can be eaten at different stages. Tasting more like a raspberry when it is red and tasting the best when it is fully ripe. Parker25mv I would say the main reason it is not sold in store isn't because of the flavor but the fruit itself is rather delicate and doesn't keep very well. From my experience most mulberries that people had as a kid eat non-cultivated mulberry which the flavor can be just okay far as fruits go. Blackberries you get at the grocery store keep very well but don't taste that good because they are picked too early. If you haven't already, try some of the cultivated varieties such as the persian, Illinois everbearing, or pakistan . You may understand the hype some people have with this fruit.

jean001, I am fairly new here and don't know the name of the gallery, but it is listed as just the "Gallery" on the previous page which shows the list of all these messages. The word "Gallery" is the link. Looks like this on my browser. On-Topic Discussions [Switch to: Gallery] I had to post it there with the same "Subject" because I have never figured out how to post images in this forum. Thanks for the response...

Iam guesing the mushrooms under your tree are from manure or mulch buried under soil. After the rains when it gets bit damp and cold the mushrooms come out. They will go away in few weeks when weather warms up.

Does it have a straight trunk and is there a bulge where the crown meets up with the trunk? Like one part of hte plant, enveloping another? If so, it's a grafted tree. The base is not the same as the top portion of the plant. The base may be a simple mulberry tree but do be careful if you are considering to grow the bottom part as regular mulberries can grow to sizes of gigantic proportions. Here;s a link to a photo of a typical grafted mulberry standard. http://www.tree-mendus.ca/Mulberry.jpg Many garden stores will sell many forms of standards that are really grafted to trees of similar species. Like apples to apples, pea shrubs to pea shrubs, lilacs to lilacs, etc... To be certain, check for hte graft union portion. That is the area that requires most winter protection because once that area is injured either by water seeping in, or an insect burring in, fungus, etc.. it will kill off the top portion of the plant. Also with any grafted tree, there will always be situation where the bottom part will try to grow more branches or trunks. It's important to suppress these growth because it takes nutrients away from it's head. It's akin to Frankenstein.